A’s vs. Giants: Get your one-liners on!

It’s been a tough eight months to be an A’s fan. Outnumbered in every battle, we face situations like my son did on the first day of Little League, when the coach asked everyone to name his favorite player. Four Brian Wilsons, three Tim Lincecums, two Buster Poseys … and when Kailen said “Coco Crisp,” the coach asked if he also liked Cap’n Crunch.

But even though we’ve had to retire our old jokes about zero world championships, there’s still plenty to tweak.

–Just how long are the Giants going to milk 2010? They’ve had to squeeze the A’s series in between Photograph Your Dog with the Championship Trophy Day and the giveaway for Replica World Series Scrotum Rings.

–I’m all for taking advantage of government grants, but did the Giants really need to apply to Medicare for a mobility assistance device for Miguel Tejada?

–Bill Neukom, as dedicated to blocking an A’s move to San Jose as he was to protecting Microsoft’s monopoly against companies that made better software, is getting a reputation as one of the four meanest Giants ever–alongside Barry Bonds, John McGraw and the one from Jack and the Beanstalk.

As has become an annual Drumbeat tradition, the comments section is open to (reasonably clean) jabs from all three types of our blog readers–A’s fans, Giants fans and Splash trolls.

Note: Today is the 50th anniversary of the first MLB game I attended. I wrote a fanpost about it at Bleed Cubbie Blue.